Cash-colirtrol apparatus



S. F. RITTERx CASH CONTROL APPARATUS.

APPLICATION Flu-:D M'Av s, 1918.

1,306,973. Patented June 17, 1919.

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S. F. RITTER.

CASH CONTROL APPARATUS.

APPucATloN man MAY3,1918.

Pawn-eed 1.111617, i919.

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v SOPI'IUS FREDERIK RITTER, OF COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, ASSIGNOR T0 FREDERIKOSCAR BLOCH, OF COPENHAGEN, DENMARK.

CASH-CONTROL APPARATUS.

Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 17, 1919..

Application led May 3, 1918. SerialrNo. 232,265.

To all whom t may concern: y v

Be it known that I, SorHUs FREDERIK RITTER, a subject of the King ofDenmark, residing at Copenhagen, in the Kingdom of Denmark, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash-'Control Apparatus;and I do hereby declare the following `to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such aswill enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadtothe accompanyingdrawings, and to letters or` `figures of referencemarked thereon, which form a part'of this specification.

Cash control apparatus are already known in "which the coins paid in andthe control checks for the amount paid in are indicatedY in the membersin which the money and checks are respectively thrown into before theyare caused to fall down into the con-` trol-apparatus by means of theaction of said members. `This kind of apparatus makes it possible forthe person in charge to verify, among other things, that the amount paidin corresponds with the con-` trol checks, but if any disagreementoccurs, it is not possible to ascertain whichY employee in business isin fault.

k'Iheobject of the present invention is to facilitate a perfect control4of every individual employee, each being allotted a specialmoney-drawer, to which the amount paid in `by him forV what he sells isconducted from the indicating-members after they are actuatedffor.delivery of the `amount and control-check, the latter being conducted toa compartment in common for, all employees,which is, accessible only forthe person. in charge. Theconducting tothe employees .special drawerfrom the commonr indicating-member for money `is/accomplished bytheadjustment eitherfof one distributing-membenin common for all drawers,or of several such members, onefor each drawer.

One form of constructionof this invention is shown inythedrawing, inwhich Figure 1'` is-a front View ofthe cash-control apparatus, Fig. 2 atop `viewofr the same,Fig.

3 isa top-view ofthe saine-withwthe lid removed, Fig. '4^ is Va verticalsection, Fig. 5 is the central part of the lidseen from bea low, andFig. 6 4shows details.I

The cash-control'apparatus consists of a boX l with three employee moneydrawers 2, 3, and 4, and a drawer 5 for change. The top of the `box iscovered with a hinged lid 6,111 .the middle of which there is a circularopening, in which is disposed a plate 7 turnable by means of lugs 8.Instead of by means of lugs 8 the plate 7 may be turned mechanically,z'. e. by means of a crank on the side ofthe boX and a suitablecog-wheel gear. On the plate 7 there are disposed receiving members 9and 10 for money and for control checks respectively.y

` `In the top of the box 1 there is, just under the lid, a chamberdivided by a partition 111, sothatrthere is formed a chamber 12, intowhich the control checks fall down from the member 10 when the plate 7is turned, while theV money from the member 9 falls down on the otherside of the wall 11, where, by means of inclined planes 13, 14, and l5,there is formed a trough, which leads down to a shaft 1:6, which runsvertically down through the entire apparatus and at its bottom is closedby an inclined plane 18, which leads into a recess 19 in the adjacent1side-wall of the change-drawer 5. A corresponding recess 19 is xfoundin the three employee money-drawers 2, 3, and 4 (see Fig. 4). i

, lUnder the inclined plates 13, 14, and 15 there are normally threevertical inclined planes 20, 21, and 22', disposed the one above theother,which, by means of pulling-members, `218, 24, and 25,respectively, can be displaced horizontally, so that they may be carriedout Vinto the shaft 16, as shown, with respect to the inclined plane 20,in Fig. 4. When the inclinedrplane 20 is in the latter position, itcatches the coins sliding down from the inclined planes 13, 14, and 15,and conducts` them through the recess 19 into theI drawer 2. Inacorresponding manner the coins maybe conducted down into the drawers Bor4, by the adjustment of the inclined planes 21 or 22. i `The plate `7 isheld in the opening in the lid 6 by means of guide-rails 26 (Fig. 5) andis stopped, after each turn, at 1800 by meansof a spring catch 27, whosespherical headV falls into one of thev two recesses 28 and 29 in thelower side ofthe plate 7. In the plate, under the receiving-member 9,there in an opening covered by a plate 30, which,`by means of a socket31, is secured to an axle 32, which runs in bearings 33 and is actuatedby a spiral `spring 34 disposed around it, one end of the spring beingsecured to the axle and the other to. one of the bearings 3,3, so thatthe spring tends to hold the plate 30 up in the hole in the plate 7. Theaxle 32 has, at one end, a somewhat downward-bent arm 35 which, when theplate 7 is' turned in the direction indicated by' the arrow in Fig. 5,is carried in under the projecting edge of a plate 36 secured to the lid6. Thereby the arm 35 is pressed in against the plate 7, so that theaxle 32, and also the plate 30, is turned, after which the coins restingon theplate 30 slide down. the plate on to the inclined planes` 13, 14,and 15, from which they slide down into the shaft 16, and either meetthe inclined plane 18, so that they slide into the change-drawer, or oneof the previously adjusted inclined' planes 20, 21, and 22, when theyare carried into the eorrespondingone of the drawers 2, 3, and 4.

The receiving-member 10 for the controlchecks opens out into a slit 37in the plate 7. Iny this slit two stop-pins 38 mesh thus holding thecontrolrcheclr in place in the member 10. Outside the slit 37 the pins33 are bent at a right angle andA secured to an axle 39 journaled inbearings 40, said axle 39 being actuated by aA spiral spring 41 disposedaround it, so, that the pins nor mally mesh into the slit 37. The axle39 has an arm 42 bent down toward the plate 7,

which arm 42, when the plate is turned,

slides up on to a rail 43 secured to the lid, whereby the axle is turnedso that the pins 38are carried out of the slit 37, and the control-checkslides through the slit down into the chamber 12. The rail 43 alsoserves as guide-rail for the plate 7. A

When the money is paid into the member 9, and the controlcheclz isplaced in the member 10, the plate 7 is turned so that the member 10 isturned out towardY the buyer, and at the next turn, of the plate, themovement of the axles 32 and 39 takes place. In the position where themember 10 'is turned toward the employee, and therefore the,

check eventually put in is not visible to the customer, the employeesdrawer ought not to be openable, which, according to Figs. 4, and G, isaccomplished by means of a locking-bar 44, withk hooks 45, disposedbehind the drawers, which locking-bar can catch a pin 46 on the rearedge of each drawer', said bar 44 being actuated by a spring 47 to turnin the direction indicated by the arrow 48 shown in Fig. 6. When theplate 7 is turnedso that the member 10 is turned t0- ward the customer,the bar 44 is turned inv the direction of the aforesaid arrow by a pin49, Fig. 5, engaging the bentendL 50 of the bar 44, whereby the pins 46are liberated from the hooks, and the drawers can be opened.

It is evident that both the distributing members, by means of which thecoins are brought down. i-nto` the respective drawers, and theindicating members may be altered in many ways included in theprinciples of the invention, which only claims suchacollabor-ationbetween the various parts that thc` coins, after being thrown in andshown, are conducted down into the previously determinedV money-drawer,while the controlchecks are conducted down into a common compartment.

I claiml- 1. An apparatus of the character described, comprising. areceptacle, a money receiverVY and a check receiver thereon adaptedV tocommunicate therewith, a check compartment and a plurality of moneycompartments in the receptacle, means to conduct checks from thereceiver tothe check compartment, a shaft in the receptacle common t'ovall the money compartments, means to conduct money from the receiver tothe shaft, and a plurality of inclinedv planes adapted to selectivelyconnect any one of the money eon'ipartments with the shaft.

2. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a receptacle, acheck compartment and a money compartment therein, a money receiver and`a Vcheck receiver on the receptacle normally out of communicationtherewith, means operated by the movement of the receiver to establishcommunication between the receptacle and receiver, and means to conductmoney andl means for conducting checks from the latter to the respectivecompartments.

3.v An apparatus of the character described, comprising a receptacle, acheck compartment therein, a plurality of money drawers. in thereceptacle, a shaft in the latter common to all the drawers, a moneyreceiver and a check receiver adapted tocommunicate with saidcompartment 'and' shaft, and a plurality of horizontally movableinclined planes arranged to connect the shaft with any one ofthe moneydrawers.

4. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a receptacle, acheck compartment therein, a plurality of moneyA drawers in thereceptacle, a vertical shaft in the latterl common to all the drawers, amoney receiver and a check receiver adapted to communicate with saidcompartment and shaft, and horizontally displaceableinclined planesarranged to connect each drawer with the shaft.

5. An apparatus` of the character described, comprisingareceptaelehaying a check compartment and a vertical shaft therein, aplurality 'of' money drawers communicating' with the shaft throughrecesses in theirsides, means` to conduct money and means to conductchecks to the shaft and` compartment respectively,w.and a horizon- 1,39

tally displaceable slide for each drawer movable into the shaft oppositethe recess.

6. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a receptacle, aplurality of movable money compartments and a check compartment in thereceptacle, a money receiver and a check receiver mounted in the top ofthe receptacle and4 1n communcation therewith, a rotatable platecarrying the receivers adapted to operatively position the latter withrespect to the compartments, means on the Copies of this patent may beobtained for ive cents each, by addressing the Washington, D. G.

plate to retain the money and checks in the receivers, means operated bythe rotation of the plate to actuate the retaining means to release themoney and checks from the receivers, means to lock the moneycompartments, and means operated by the movement of the plate to actuatethe locking means to release the money compartments.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signedmy name.

SOPHUS FREDERIK RITTER.

Commissioner of Patents,

